The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 60
60. Essence of Islam-V ever I wrote, I wrote extemporaneously. And I wrote the manuscript so quickly and with such flow that the copyist found it hard to keep pace with me. When I finished writing the paper, I received this Revelation from God Almighty, 'The paper transcends all others. ' Thus when the paper was being read out in that conference, the audience were in an ecstasy and exclamations of acclaim were heard from every corner. . So much so that the Hindu gentleman who presided over the conference, could not help exclaiming, "The paper transcends all others. " An English daily, The. Civil and Military Gazette, which is published from. Lahore, also recorded its testimony, "The paper transcends all others. " About twenty Urdu newspapers also gave the same testimony. With the exception of a few prejudiced individuals, everyone present bore out that this paper had surpassed all others. To this day there are hundreds of people who continue to give the same testimony. Thus with the testimony of every sect, as well as of the English newspapers, my prophecy, 'The paper transcends all others', was fulfilled. . This challenge was like the one that Prophet Moses as had to take up against the sorcerers, for in this Conference exponents of different schools of thought delivered speeches about their respective faiths. Some of them were Christians, some were Hindus of. Sanātan Dharam or Ārya Samāj, some were Brahmūs, some were Sikhs, and some were Muslims who oppose us. All of them had turned their sticks into imaginary snakes, but when God unleashed the rod of the truth of Islam against them in the form of a pure